There is a long standing trend on YouTube where people will, for lack of a better phrasing, hijack any give YouTube comment on a video for their own ends. This tends to happen after the original video uploader replies to the original comment: it seems the masses see this as a chance to reply where […]
Ah GIF, the acronym for Graphics Interchange Format. There is no easier way to start an argument online than to bring up just how you pronounce this acronym. If you ask anyone on the street, they will pronounce it with a hard G, as in the way we say “gift” in English. However, if you […]
The 1980’s looked to be a new era for NASA, and space travel on a whole. After the close of the Apollo program, the United States focused its resources towards a new, reusable spacecraft, to act as a space truck to launch satellites, to carry on scientific research and to eventually build a new space […]
Let’s go back in time 50 years, to January, 1966. It was the middle of the space race, and the United States was halfway through it’s record-setting Gemini Program. After trailing behind the Russians for 8 years, since the launch of Sputnik in 1957, all the way to first Extra-Vehicular Activity on Voskhod 2, in […]
I have quite the love-hate relationship with the social media service Facebook. It’s my primary online way to keep in touch with many people, both close friends and acquaintances in the gaming and convention scenes. It’s also a useful enough service for discussing various subjects I’m interested in (I’m a member of quite a few […]
Downloadable Content. Intended as a way to expand the quality of a game after its initial release, many gamers see it as a bane of their gaming experience, often feeling it is nothing more than a way to milk more money out of the consumer who already spent $60 or more on their new game. […]
While looking over my YouTube channel, I noticed something – many of my videos are about video game console repair. In one way or another, from the Atari 2600 to the Xbox 360, I have video after video of getting inside the plastic shell of these machines and fixing problems these machines may have. From […]
Let’s get one thing straight right off the bat – I absolutely hate Google. By that, I explicitly mean the corporation known as Google, it’s services, it’s general policies, up to an including the new “parent” company, Alphabet (which, let’s face it, is the absolute worst name for any company ever if you ask me.) […]
Final Fantasy VII was one of the top selling games for the original Sony PlayStation, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest games ever made. With a movie and several video game sequels and prequels, it is by far the most prominent and expansive story in the Final Fantasy universe. In the early […]
I pay pretty close attention to NASA and current space related activities on a whole; I like to stay current on a subject that, I feel, is the single most important subject to the longevity of the human race. Of course, being an American, I am paying closest attention to our own manned space efforts, […]
These days, the computers we buy and use just work. Granted, they may not work well all the time, but they really do, on a whole, exactly what we want them to do, and without much issue. For those of us who do upgrade our machines, the process is mostly trivial – we just shove […]
Ever since the birth of the internet, people have been sharing their thoughts and opinions on virtually everything. Even before the internet, on the BBS systems of the 80’s, people were discussing any subject you can imagine. In the mid 2000’s, social networks began to rise… Livejournal, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter… each one surpassing the next […]
It’s the holiday season, and you know what that means: Stores are packed beyond belief, sale after sale is driving to take your money, and that one item you really want is impossible to find. It’s also the absolute worst time in a retail workers life. It might not be for the exact reasons you […]
I love watching old TV programs and the like related to computer technology. They are amazing time capsules, preserving the thoughts and opinions people had on then-current technology. It’s strange to see something that you know failed in the market be touted as something that will “revolutionize the future” or to see someone tout how […]
With the release of the New Xbox One Experience on November 12th, Microsoft also released Backwards Compatibility with Xbox 360 games. That’s right, you can play your Xbox 360 games on your Xbox One. Well… not all of them. Not yet, and it takes some patience, but, I’ll explain it here. 1: Make […]